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Sacrifice in Maya culture
Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving either the killing of animals, the bloodletting by members of the community or the killing of human beings, in rituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propiate or fulfil a perceived obligation towards the gods.
Animal sacrifice and bloodletting were a common feature in many Maya festivals and regular rituals. Human sacrifice was far less common, being tied to events such as ill fortune, warfare and the consecration of new leaders or temples. The practice was also far less common than in the neighbouring Aztec societies.The maya people would sacrifice their prisoners. The prisoners were most often from neighboring tribes. These sacrifices made them feared and hated by all the other tribes.
Child sacrifice
Mayanists believe that, like the Aztecs, the Maya performed child sacrifice in specific circumstances, most commonly as foundation dedications for temples and other structures. Maya art from the Classic period also depicts the extraction of children's hearts during the ascension to the throne of the new kings, or at the beginnings of the Maya calendar. In one of these cases, Stele 11 in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a sacrificed boy can be seen. Other scenes of sacrificed boys are visible on painted jars.
As archeologists continue to excavate, more instances of child dedicatory sacrifices are being uncovered. A dig commenced in 1974 at the northern Belize site of Lamanai turned up the remains of five children, ranging in age from a newborn to about 8 years old:
The conclusion that the five children were sacrificial victims is virtually inescapable ... Nowhere else at Lamanai is there evidence of human sacrifice, either of children or adults ... However, it is clear that the offering of children as part of the dedicatory activities that preceded the setting up of stelae was not uncommon at any time or place in the Maya lowlands."
In 2005 a mass grave of one- to two-year-old sacrificed children was found in the Maya region of Comalcalco. The sacrifices were apparently performed for dedicatory purposes when building temples at the Comalcalco acropolis.
An excavation at El Perú-Waka’ turned up the remains of an infant with, unusually, those of a adult male, in the presence of extensive evidence of feasting that had followed the expansion of a residence which had then been "ensouled" by the rituals, festivities and sacrifice. The analysis suggests that the "interments show that human sacrifice was not limited to the royal actors associated with the Classic Maya state, but could be practiced by lesser elites as part of their own private ceremonies."
Source: wikipedia
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This shows that each culture has its own morality, and that psychedelics don't make you "Love" everything. They can also make you do stupid things like believing you need to kill people in order to satisfy a freaking flying snake that is not even real. Taking psychedelic drugs wont always conduct you to do what's "right".
They can seriously delude you.
These people were shamans and I see a lot of violence, ignorance and fear-mongering.
I would NEVER expect that a psychedelic drugs user would be a "loving and caring" person just because he uses certain drugs.
If you find your path that is full of "light and love" good for you. But YOU made the decision, the drug didn't force you.
Psychedelics can make you believe all sort of things, please be careful and respect others' lives.
Sacrifice was a religious activity in Maya culture, involving either the killing of animals, the bloodletting by members of the community or the killing of human beings, in rituals superintended by priests. Sacrifice has been a feature of almost all pre-modern societies at some stage of their development and for broadly the same reason: to propiate or fulfil a perceived obligation towards the gods.
Animal sacrifice and bloodletting were a common feature in many Maya festivals and regular rituals. Human sacrifice was far less common, being tied to events such as ill fortune, warfare and the consecration of new leaders or temples. The practice was also far less common than in the neighbouring Aztec societies.The maya people would sacrifice their prisoners. The prisoners were most often from neighboring tribes. These sacrifices made them feared and hated by all the other tribes.
Child sacrifice
Mayanists believe that, like the Aztecs, the Maya performed child sacrifice in specific circumstances, most commonly as foundation dedications for temples and other structures. Maya art from the Classic period also depicts the extraction of children's hearts during the ascension to the throne of the new kings, or at the beginnings of the Maya calendar. In one of these cases, Stele 11 in Piedras Negras, Guatemala, a sacrificed boy can be seen. Other scenes of sacrificed boys are visible on painted jars.
As archeologists continue to excavate, more instances of child dedicatory sacrifices are being uncovered. A dig commenced in 1974 at the northern Belize site of Lamanai turned up the remains of five children, ranging in age from a newborn to about 8 years old:
The conclusion that the five children were sacrificial victims is virtually inescapable ... Nowhere else at Lamanai is there evidence of human sacrifice, either of children or adults ... However, it is clear that the offering of children as part of the dedicatory activities that preceded the setting up of stelae was not uncommon at any time or place in the Maya lowlands."
In 2005 a mass grave of one- to two-year-old sacrificed children was found in the Maya region of Comalcalco. The sacrifices were apparently performed for dedicatory purposes when building temples at the Comalcalco acropolis.
An excavation at El Perú-Waka’ turned up the remains of an infant with, unusually, those of a adult male, in the presence of extensive evidence of feasting that had followed the expansion of a residence which had then been "ensouled" by the rituals, festivities and sacrifice. The analysis suggests that the "interments show that human sacrifice was not limited to the royal actors associated with the Classic Maya state, but could be practiced by lesser elites as part of their own private ceremonies."
Source: wikipedia
........................................
This shows that each culture has its own morality, and that psychedelics don't make you "Love" everything. They can also make you do stupid things like believing you need to kill people in order to satisfy a freaking flying snake that is not even real. Taking psychedelic drugs wont always conduct you to do what's "right".
They can seriously delude you.
These people were shamans and I see a lot of violence, ignorance and fear-mongering.
I would NEVER expect that a psychedelic drugs user would be a "loving and caring" person just because he uses certain drugs.
If you find your path that is full of "light and love" good for you. But YOU made the decision, the drug didn't force you.
Psychedelics can make you believe all sort of things, please be careful and respect others' lives.
